April 2009 Blog Posts (4)

The annotated webliography project went thissa way: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009941892632664145530:4oufa0peto4 http://www.google.com/cse?cx=009941892632664145530:4oufa0peto4&&q=sanitization Makes more sense to me, more fluid, quick, open. Mainly state and fed sites, with some good NGO type work,… Continue

I'm going to start annotated-webliographizing some SIV resources... If you see something quality, pass it on my way. Continue

Thinking abt the greatness that has come from computer sci people applying that kind of logic -- thinking in code -- to disaster, aid, infrastructure probs. Wondering what kinds of solutions may come forward with energy moving from libraries and the management of computers + books + [people's finding and use of info in computers + books]. has its own sorts of implications. what abt libraries and info-science (as it specifically relates to managing the access of folks to the info -- no strictly… Continue

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. You can put the resources in people's hands, but you can't make them connect the question to the answer. You can outline, step by step, exactly what the truth of the situation is, based on the research and facts, but you can't make them believe you. I sincerely believe that the easiest way to do something is always most likely the best way to do something. I see people wasting my time and theirs by making things much more diffic… Continue